Device for corking bottles.



No. 642,246. Patented Jan. 30, I900. C. M008 &. C. H. MAYER.

DEVICE FOR CORKING BOTTLES.

(Application filed Aug. 10, 1899.) (No Model.)

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CORNELIUS MOOR AND CHARLES H. MAYER, OF HAMMOND, INDIANA.

DEVICE FOR CORKING BOTTLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 642,246, dated January 30, 1900.

Application filed August 10,1899.

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Be it known that we, CORNELIUS MOOR and CHARLES H. MAYER, citizens of the United States, residing at Hammond, in the county of Lake and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Device for Corking Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in devices for cor-king bottles.

The object of the present invention is toiinprove the construction of devices for corking bottles and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one designed for corking what are known as pop-bottles, containing beverages, such as soda-water, ginger-ale, and the like.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view, partly in elevation, showing a device constructed in accordance with this invention and arranged on the bottle in position for corking the same. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view illustrating the position of the parts when the stopper is applied to the bottle. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the plunger. Fig. at is a transverse sectional view on line 4: 4: of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a detail View of the slotted plate.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1 designates a barrel or casing adapted to be held in the hand and having its exterior shape to form a handle or grip and provided with a longitudinal bore or opening for the reception of a plunger 2. The lower end of the bore or opening is flared or enlarged at 3 to receive the neck 4: of a bottle, and the flared portion 23 forms a shoulder or seat for a disk or plate 5, which is provided with a slot 6, com niunieating with a narrow portion 7 of the bore or opening of the barrel or casing. The narrow portion 7 of the bore or opening is oblong in horizontal sectional view and is adapted to receive a resilient bail or loop 8 of a stopper 9, having a rubber disk 10, which forms an elastic head for engaging a shoulder 12 of the interior of the neck of the bottle;

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but any other compressible stopper of this character may be employed.

The resilient loop or hail of the stopper eX- tends upward therefrom to form a stem, and it is substantially U-shaped, being provided at opposite sides with outward bends forming opposite shoulders 13, adapted to engage the plate 5 at the ends of the slot to support the stopper on the corking device and also capable of engaging the interior shoulder of the bottle to prevent the stopper from dropping into the bottle when it is compressed to open the said bottle.

The plunger, which is provided at its upper end with a head or knob 14, consists of a rod 15 and a flat bar or plate 16, and it is provided at the inner or upper end of the latter with a stop 17, consisting of a flange or plate and arranged to be engaged bya coiled spring 18. The coiled spring 18, which is disposed on the flat portion of the plunger, is interposed between the stop 17 and a shoulder 19, formed by the upper end of the reduced portion 7 of the bore or opening, and the said spring is adapted to hold the plunger normally elevated and return the same to such position after it has been operated. The constricted or narrow portion of the bore or opening forms a guide for the loop or bail 8, and the lower end of the plunger is provided with a groove 20, forming a socket to receive the top of the said loop or bail.

The upper or rounded portion of the plunger is guided in a bore or opening of the sleeve 21, arranged within the upper portion of the barrel or casing and provided atits upper end with an outwardly-extending annular flange 22,which rests upon the upper edge of the barrel or casing. The sleeve,which is re movable, is secured within the upper end of the barrel or casing by a screw 23 or other suitable fastening device, and it is adapted to be readily removed when it is desired to detach the plunger. When the barrelorcasingis constructed of wood,it is preferably strengthened by bands 24 and 25, and the fastening device 23 preferably passes through the up per band.

\Vhen the plunger is forced downward, it carries with it the stopper, which is compressed and forced beyond the interior shoulder, whereby it is held firmly seated against IOC the same by the interior pressure exerted by the contents of the bottle. The flat portion 16 of the plunger is provided at its inner end with a recess 16", arranged adjacent to the stop 17 and receiving the upper end of the coiled spring 18.

It will be seen that the bottle corking device is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, that it is easily operated, that the stopper is supported at the lower end of the device preparatory to corking a bottle, and that the supporting means for engaging the operating device also engage the neck of the bottle to prevent the cork from fallinginto the same.

Changes in the form, proportion, size, and the minor details of construction within the scope of the appended claim may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any ofthe advantages of this invention.

hat is claimed is- A device of the class described comprising a barrel having a longitudinal bore or opening flared at the lower end and constricted adjacent to the same, a plate provided with a slot and secured Within the lower end of the bore or opening and having its slot registering with the constricted portion, a plunger provided with a fiat lower portion arranged to extend through the slotted plate and provided at its lower end with a groove and having a recess at its upper end, said plunger being provided with a stop 17 at the upper end of the flat portion, a spring housed within the barrel and disposed on the lower fiat portion of the plunger and engaging the recess at the upper end of the said flat portion, and a sleeve detachably secured within the upper end of the barrel, substantially as described.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereto affixed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

CORNELIUS MOOR. CHARLES H. MAYER.

Witnesses:

V. S. REITER, '1. W. OBERLIN. 

